In article WZs4e.286004$FM3.125440@fed1read02,
Ed Price wrote:

#snip#

As an Extra, do you really think that a ham should be surprised
to find that an arc-discharge luminary, placed in proximity to his rig,
causes RFI?

What "arc-discharge luminary"? The OP referred to a 120-volt halogen
lamp, "no transformer". The standard, commonly-available consumer
device which fits this description uses a tungsten filament in a
halogen atmosphere - it's a simple spin on an ordinary incandescent
bulb. There's no arc discharge involved in the operation of such
bulbs, and in the absence of a switching regulator or dimmer I know of
no reason why such lamps would be more likely to generate RFI than a
standard incandescent lamp.

I see nothing in the OP's query to suggest that he was referring to a
high-intensity discharge bulb, which would require a ballast of some
sort and which could certainly generate RF.

Your functional competence in communicating within Usenet is also deficient,
as you sent a redundant copy of your post to my personal address. Please try
to learn the difference between replying to a post in a newsgroup and
replying to the poster's address (especially when the poster affords you the
courtesy of a non-spoofed address).

In defense of the gentleman to whom you are responding, I would point
out that the convention of "post a reply to the public newsgroup or
mailing list, and send a courtesy copy to the individual's mailbox"
has been in use on the Internet for at least 15 years, and probably
more. Some people like receiving courtesy copies, some dislike it,
and I agree that one should respect the individual recipient's choice
when it is known.

I do not agree that the poster was out of line or "deficient" in
sending you a courtesy copy of his posting.

For what it's worth, Ed, my own immediate reaction to several of your
postings was to conclude that they were unnecessarily contemptuous. I
think that your advice would be more successfully received, and thus
more effective, if it were delivered in a tone which was, shall we
say, less snotty?

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